Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year was 1925. In a Manhattan office a very young lawyer, who had only recently abandoned his ambition to become an opera star, looked up from a brief he was studying and inquired of a colleague: "How do you get into politics?" On that day, at that hour, Thomas E. Dewey's campaign for the presidency began...
...Editorialists Max Lerner and I. F. Stone (now in Palestine) will become thrice-a-week columnists, and have been told to keep it brief. As cartoonists, the Star has hitched a talented team: young Bill Mauldin and, for the editorial page, Veteran Edmund Duffy, three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, who recently left the Baltimore...
...Despite talk of shortages, U.S. gasoline supplies for this summer "look pretty good," the Interior Department reported. Unless the public drives "recklessly far and recklessly fast," there will be only brief spot shortages due to inadequate transportation and distribution...
Washington's George Marshall, vacationing in Sun Valley, Idaho, saw brief action in the daily softball game. Getting a good grip on his lip (see cut), he took his cut from an open southpaw stance, grounded out to the pitcher in the first inning, then sat out the rest of the game...
...monkeyshines-but they also think that her playing is in Myra Hess's league. U.S. audiences have not yet seen Eileen's act, but millions of moviegoers have heard her (the excellent sound tracks of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 helped make The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter two of the best British movies seen...